On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

A “flower”-like sea creature caught the attention of scientists ... researchers noticed some unfamiliar-looking zoantharians living on a sea sponge, the study said. Intrigued, they collected ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...

A ship run by Schmidt Institute was heading for Bellingshausen Sea when an iceberg broke clean, exposing 510 square ...

Based on the size of the animals, the communities we observed ... ecosystem that included icefish, giant sea spiders, octopus, corals and sponges. They suspect they've found several new species ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

The ‘David Packard’ is named for the Silicon Valley pioneer who donated more than $1 billion to ocean research.